On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 03:33:33PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:> Yes - lets stick to fewer numbers. They can count faster, instead> of having a long string of them. I hope linux doesn't> end up like X. "X11R6.8.1" The "X" itself is a counter, although> it is understandable if it never increments to "Y". But> that "11" doesn't change much, and then there are three more numbers. :-/

X11 is the name of the protocol: the X Protocol, version 11, asreleased by the MIT. There was an X10.

6.8.1 is the current X.Org release that we did because 6.8 turned outto have a nasty idiot bug.